Pretreatment of rice straw with ammonia and ionic liquid for lignocellulose conversion to fermentable sugars

• Published in: Bioresource technology Vol. 101; no. 19; pp. 7432 - 7438
• Main Authors: Nguyen, Tam-Anh D., Kim, Kyoung-Rok, Han, Se Jong, Cho, Hwa Young, Kim, Jin Woo, Park, Sung Min, Park, Jae Chan, Sim, Sang Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2010; [New York, NY]: Elsevier Ltd; Elsevier
• Subjects: Ammonia; Ammonia - pharmacology; Biological and medical sciences; Biotechnology; Biotechnology - methods; Carbohydrate Metabolism - drug effects; Cellulase - metabolism; Cellulose; Combined pretreatment; Conservation of Natural Resources; Conversion; Fermentation - drug effects; Food industries; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Glucose; Glucose - metabolism; Ionic liquids; Ionic Liquids - pharmacology; Lignin - metabolism; Lignocellulose; Methods. Procedures. Technologies; Microbial engineering. Fermentation and microbial culture technology; Oryza - drug effects; Oryza sativa; Particle Size; Pretreatment; Recovering; Rice; Solubility - drug effects; Straw; Time Factors; Use and upgrading of agricultural and food by-products. Biotechnology; Ionic liquids; Ammonia; Combined pretreatment; Lignocellulose; Rice straw; Cereal by product; Lignocellulosics; Pretreatment; Fermentation; Sugar

Pretreatment technology is a prerequisite to facilitate the release of sugars from a lignocellulosic biomass prior to fermentation. Recently, some pretreatment methods have been tried with ionic liquids, but they were still expensive and unpractical. In this study, an efficient pretreatment method u...